Reproductive Endocrine Disorders in Women With Partial Seizures of Temporal Lobe Origin

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 1986, Pages 341-346

  Herzog, Andrew G ^a   Seibel, Machelle M ^a   Schomer, Donald L ^a   Vaitukaitis, Judith L ^b,c   Geschwind, Norman ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSIS; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; ETIOLOGY; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HUMAN; HYPERGONADOTROPIC HYPOGONADISM; HYPERPROLACTINEMIA; HYPOGONADOTROPIC HYPOGONADISM; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL POTENCY; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; THERAPY;

ADULT; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM DISEASES; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; HUMANS; HYPERPROLACTINEMIA; HYPOGONADISM; IMPOTENCE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHENYTOIN; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 0022618885     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: 15383687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.1986.00520040029014     Document Type: Article

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